"I shower in front of my daughter, 18, to show her what a real body looks like"

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Credit: SWNS  A mum still showers in front of her 18-year-old daughter - to show her what a real body looks like.  Angela Karanja, 48, has been stripping off in front of Dee since she was a baby.  She sees no point in stopping now, even though Dee is an adult - as she wants to teach her about being comfortable in her own skin.  Psychologist Angela, from Banbury, Oxon., said she wants her daughter to know that bodies on social media aren't real.

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00:00We have baths, we have showers together.

00:02There is nothing about being a real woman that she doesn't know.

00:10Because I didn't grow up feeling confident about myself,

00:14when I reflected and found the standards to which I was looking up to,

00:20I made a very conscious decision that I'm going to start loving myself the way I am.

00:27And this feeling of discomfort and almost body dysmorphia, to be honest,

00:34has to stop with me.

00:35Because if I don't stop, I pass it on to my daughter.

00:40I walk with nothing in this house.

00:43We have showers together, we've had baths together ever since.

00:47Even now, Dee is 18.

00:51We often have baths when you have time, isn't it?

00:54We have baths, we have showers together.

00:56There is nothing about being a real woman that she doesn't know.

01:03So when Dee grew up, she knew what was real and what was not.

01:10That's why I believe you can confidently say,

01:14that's photoshopped, that's photoshopped.

01:17That's the thing with fashion and fads.

01:20It just keeps changing.

01:21One day, it's the big lips.

01:23The next day, it's the slim ones.

01:25The next day, it's the big butt.

01:27The next day, it's the small one.

01:29You know, we are looking up to things that are not real so much.

01:33We're almost fantasizing, romanticizing fakeness.

01:40At some point in my life, I wasn't very comfortable in my own body.

01:44But I slowly just sort of learned to love myself.

01:49And I was just like, once you do learn to love yourself,

01:52it's also easier to love everything else around you.

01:56So I'm obviously in my generation and stuff.

02:00There's the social media standards and the society standards

02:04and how, in a sense, you should look.

02:07When you love your body, it also loves you back.

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